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Jeremiah 25:15

The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 25:15

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

For thus saith, etc. Out of this verse and the following, to the end of the chapter, the Septuagint makes the thirty-second chapter, being completed by the prophecy against Elam ().

The symbolic act which the prophet is directed to perform is mentioned in order to explain the word of threatening just uttered. So, at least, we must understand it, if we accept the arrangement of the Hebrew text.

But the connection is certainly improved if we follow Graf, and omit ; thus becomes an explanation of the threat against Judah and the other nations in .

The wine, up of this fury; or, this wine-cup of fury. The wine with which the cup is filled is the wrath of God. The figure is not an infrequent one with the prophets and the psalmists (comp. ; ; , ; ; ; ; ).

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